| Name | Jatropha rufescens Brandegee |
| Authorship | Brandegee |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Jatropha Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:350453-1 |
| Citation | 1910 Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 88 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Jatropha rufescens Brandegee |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2), 1922 (1), 1992 (1) |